Response directly from her district coming here:
Bachmann is the superior choice in CD6 MN- that doesn't mean to imply that she's anywhere near a perfect choice.
Up until a month ago I would have gagged myself before ever stepping forward to support her. But we live in interesting times and things are evolving quickly- and as our congress goes she is now at the forefront in the 'coming around' category, and that is something we simply can't afford to lose in Washington under the upcoming Obama administration. There is going to be a whole army of Obamites in congress for the next session, and El Tinklenberg would be just one more such footsoldier. If there's anyone more difficult to bring around to the real problems facing this country than a formerly 100% neocon Republican, it is a big government Democrat- and we would lose an awful lot of recent positive development and be back to square one if we replace her with El. This support is tentative, of course, to future performance. But the reason Dr. Paul came forward with this entreaty towards our CD6 people is in large part because we asked him to do this.
It goes without saying that Ms. Bachmann is ditzy beyond belief at times and knows little in the way of a running gear in between 'the lights are out and no one is home here' and 'full forward gung ho.' It goes without saying that her remarks were incredibly intemperate in that she personalized them rather than sticking strictly to labeling the issues rather than the human being as Anti-American, which is the absolute truth. And of course she's still in the process of being brought up to speed on the fact that her party's leaders including McCain are also behind those Anti-American issues. But exactly like other MN politicians recently who are prone to exactly the same faults in the area of political self-induced suicide [insert Jesse here], with Michele you never have to wonder whether you're being 'handled' with deceptively intended rhetoric- love her or hate her you are getting the real Michele at all times. And to her credit she's caught on to her own stupidity in being led into her intemperate delivery of those remarks, and has admitted she was wrong to personalize them.
It was an interesting experience watching her evolve with grassroots influence this spring, from her first speaking gig at the local BPOU in Meeker County in late February- where she may as well have showed up dressed in a cheerleading outfit complete with pom-poms and a big 'W' on the blouse, she was selling Bush policy hard and was shocked I think to see her rhetoric nearly send the group into fistfights between the Liberty group and the Neocon supporters. For several minutes there she was interrupted while the group got about the business of tearing out one another's throats. From there to Wright Co, then on to HD16B Sherburne and the CD6 convention itself I listened as she amazingly had less and less to say about foreign policy and more and more to say about anything else- including light bulbs, LOL.
Lastly it goes without saying that if she'd simply stayed in the Foxhole, kept her head down and not stuck her neck out in the media she'd have won here with at least a 10% margin, here in MN's most conservative district. Now that's in doubt and a troubling development is exacerbating the problem- a certain college prof at St. John's/St. Bens has thrown his hat back in the ring as a write-in choice. I spent a good deal of the day helping one of his colleagues move into her new home yesterday near St. Joe, and on the moving crew were a few other faculty members. Its an open secret up there that Mr. Aubrey Immelman, the Political Psych prof and St. Could Times political columnist, and write-in candidate who filed last weekend to have his votes counted, is a longtime Democrat supporter with the sole intent of siphoning off as much Bachmann support as possible in the hopes of helping Tinklenberg get elected. The vast majority of us Liberty people voted for him in the primary- as a protest anti-Bachmann vote at a time when it didn't matter as to the outcome, and as a result we helped Immelman out to the tune of over 14% in that primary against Bachmann. But now there are real stakes on the table in the general election, and its absolutely crucial that each and every one of our CD6 people fully understand that Immelman is all about absolute deception and they must decide accordingly. And they must be informed as to Michele's progress in the area of coming around to Liberty viewpoints, which is very real and not insubstantial. We will never know for sure if we deposed a budding Ron Paul in the making if we let Tinklenberg win. MN has no such Ron Paul in National office on the GOP side, the closest thing we have is conservative Dem Collin Peterson up in the NW, and he's a damn good rep as Dems go. I strongly urge all MN CD6'ers, despite past record on Bachmann, to give some thought to her apparent epiphany with regard to economics and the importance of limited Federal gov't living within its means, and vote to find out how she will evolve from here. A Tinklenberg win sets us back to square one.
I strongly urge all outside the district whether inside or outside of the state borders to keep an open mind on this- and the idiots who want to denigrate Dr. Paul for supporting movement in the right directions from his colleagues in Congress and more specifically on his committee- well to put it bluntly you can stick that garbage where the sun don't shine and keep it there.
Here is one of my favorite Norman Dodd quotes:
